The four Solutions workflows connect these steps to real REST
requests. Ordinary MCP resource access and tool-only resource fallbacks use the same packaged content.
Skill import is supported where the client offers it; an imported skill is a release snapshot and
must be reimported for updates. Preparing an import bundle does not imply app-directory publication.
Public coding-plugin versions may lag the server bundle; check the installed release.
Existing entrypoints such as
gdelt-discover-and-drill, brief-output, multi-surface-synthesis,
macro-native and prediction-markets remain available for compatibility and specialist guidance.
The one that matters most
gdelt-discover-and-drill encodes the habit this API rewards: start wide, then narrow into what
the summary actually showed. A narrow first query returns an empty result that reads as “nothing
happened” when it means “these filters intersected to nothing” — and a model with no procedure will
usually take the empty result at face value.
The same loop written out by hand is in
Answer a question with MCP.
The brief-output skill remains available for formatting your own cited answer. Hosted Monitoring
Brief generation is temporarily unavailable.
External tools
The third-party providers some skills reach for, and what they are and are not.

